Complete newbie wanting to creat and island from scratch

Background: I am a complete newbie totally hooked on Croque for a number of
reasons.  I work for an Education Service Center and we are planning on using
Croquet for a middle school virtual geography class (if it goes well we plan on
offering others).  I have 7 years programming in PERL and 6 programming in PHP
so am familiar with "Squeak like" syntax... also have build several "objects"
in Secondlife (with a little bit of Linden scripting).... So obviously Croque
seems absolutely perfect for what we want to do.

Question 1: If I wanted to build an Island from scratch and have it appear as
an icon on the users "First Steps" windows on their Croque SDK where would I
want to start (a detailed tutorial somewhere)? I have watched the tutorial
videos from the Croque wiki but am still unclear of the starting point.  I have
also read the "Programming in Croquet" guide on the wiki but am not sure (1)
how to start my scripts and (2) where I need to save them to have them appear
on the "First Steps" window.   I am positive if I was just pointed in the right
direction I would be sailing !

and

Question 2: Another total newbie question I know but is there by chance a way
to compile or "package" the island script so the students would only need to
double click it from their desktop and it would bring them to the Island (or an
island that they can then connect to the main Island from through their window
for the collaborative session)?

Thanks for your time ! We are really looking forward to introducing this into
the schools we serve once we get our legs under us with this !


Regards,
Rich


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Hello

I hope I understand you right, 'cause I am not a native speaker, but  
lets see.

Well, same situation here. I do not overlook the whole process of  
creating and propagating an island,
but here are some hints.

First, check the class CroquetParticipant and his descendants. Check  
the "Press me" button
on the first steps page.

The croquet demo from the image itself starts with

button
        | w |
        w := KCroquetParticipant new.
        w  position: 0@110.
        w extent: World extent - w position.

        ^w openInWorld


change method KCroquetParticipant->entry to call your own world.

Second, take a look at WisconsinWorld and MarsWorld and BFDMaster  
class. (esp. setup method)

There is always a lot of work done in the background and its hard to  
follow the flow
(for a newbie like me)


> Question 2: Another total newbie question I know but is there by  
> chance a way
> to compile or "package" the island script so the students would  
> only need to
> double click it from their desktop and it would bring them to the  
> Island (or an
> island that they can then connect to the main Island from through  
> their window
> for the collaborative session)?

There is a thread about startup script here

http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Croquet-Collaborative-Server-questions- 
t3580780.html

Hope this helps
Enno

PS: For importing models look for Blender ase scripts or  
ObjCroquetBuilder

On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:39 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

As Enno said, you want to look at CroquetParticipant and its  
subclasses.  On the class side, they implement  
#descriptionForPartsBin.  If you make your own subclass and define  
#descriptionForPartsBin appropriately then it will show up in the  
'ObjectsTool' (as it is called) the next time that the category is  
refreshed.  For example, after you have made your changes, click on  
one of the other categories (eg: 'Games') and then click 'Croquet'...  
you'll se a new icon for your class.

Josh